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TGA restricts the advertising of prescription medicines to consumers. Health Professionals must create an account and sign in to view the full range of medicines available.

How to Order

Step 1: Get Your Order Book

Eligible prescribers can obtain a Prescriber Bag Supply Order Book by completing a request form available from Services Australia.

We would recommend ordering through PRODA / HPOS. This allows you to also arrange supply of prescription pads and specify delivery to a personal address (rather than a public hospital). 

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Step 2: Create your Account with DocBags

You will need to create an account prior to ordering. Only persons with AHPRA registration and a prescriber number are permitted to order. Your credentials will be verified prior to order fulfilment. Practice managers are able to order on a prescriber's behalf. 

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Step 3: Add your Products to the Cart

Individual items can be found using the search function after you have logged in. Alternatively, the full schedule of medicines for emergency supply can be obtained here. 

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Step 4: Send us a Copy of the Order Form

 It is important to understand that the paper order form is the legal instruction for us to supply the medications, not the order through the website. As such, we are required to sight a copy of the order form prior to dispatch. Please send a photograph of the form to email@docbags.com.au or upload the image with your order.

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Step 5: Send us the Original and Duplicate Order Form

Once you have received the medications, please complete column 5 of the form and sign below. At this point we are required to receive the original and the duplicate order form. Please tear them out and mail them to the following address (no postage stamp required):

DocBags
Reply Paid 91160
Macquarie Park NSW 2113

Do not send us the triplicate, this is for your records.

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Important information from Medicare:

Print firmly in BLOCK LETTERS and use black or blue pen

The order book is an accountable document and must be kept secure, and in a place controlled by the prescriber it is issued to.

1. Prescriber bag supplies are only obtainable from an approved supplier upon presentation of a signed prescriber bag supplies order form. The form must be completed in triplicate, signed and the original and duplicate given to the approved supplier.

2. Only prescriber bag supplies listed in the effective version of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - pbs.gov.au - may be obtained as pharmaceutical benefits.

3. The prescriber or authorised agent may only receipt the form at the time of receiving the pharmaceutical benefits supplied.

4. Orders will be counted towards the month in which they are received, and no other order for that item or its equivalent within that month will be allowed.

5. Prescribers may order the maximum quantity of an item provided they do not already have the maximum quantity on hand. Prescribers may also ask for a particular brand of a pharmaceutical benefit. If it is unavailable, they must specify another listed brand, and initial the alteration.

6. Once the maximum quantity of a pharmaceutical benefit has been supplied in a particular month, any further supplies in that month may only be done at the prescriber's expense on a private prescription or otherwise obtained, but not as a pharmaceutical benefit.

7. More information on prescriber bag supplies may be obtained by consulting: 

  • the National Health Act 1953, and any related Legislative Instruments
  • the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 2017
  • the effective version of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits.